The Tompkinsville brewery has brewed and brewed and now it's celebrating with a second anniversary party in the parking lot across the street from its tasting room on 40 Minthorne Street, starting at noon on Saturday.

The event is as much a party as a celebration of the community ties the brewery has built over the past couple years: Food from Ho'Brah Tacos, Pier 76 and Red's Wagon Food Truck; coffee and tea from Beans and Leaves; music from bands like Captain Ahab and the Sea Crackens and the Wahoo Skiffle Crazies.

There will, of course, be beer too.

The festival also includes a philanthropic element: Miss Staten Island 2016 is hosting a social media photo scavenger hunt. If you donate $10 to the Children's Miracle Network, you can play the hunt with 62 items to find throughout Flagship's tap room and lot.

So as if that's not enough reasons to raise your glass, here are 9 more reasons to say "Cheers!" in honor of the accomplished brewery.

1. BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE DAY FOR THAT

May 14 is officially Flagship Brewing Co. Day in Staten Island. Borough President James Oddo proclaimed it so. If you don't celebrate, well, are you really even a Staten Islander?

2. BECAUSE THEY'VE BREWED A LOT OF BEER

As of Tuesday, Flagship has brewed 140,000 gallons of beer. Just think about a gallon of milk and let that sink in a bit.

3. BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL

Bring up bottling to any brewery and you'll probably get a panicked look: It's darn expensive to bottle beer, so anyone who can do it must be doing well. Flagship began bottling beer on June 15 with their APA and WIT beers. It resulted in a 114 percent increase in sales in the first quarter of this year. Now, bottles can be found in all Staten Island Stop and Shops, Key Foods, Met Food stores and many other independently-owned stores.

Flagship beers gradually made their way from Staten Island Staten Island bars and restaurants, to bars and restaurants in other boroughs. Now, at the start of the 2016 New York Mets baseball season, Flagship Lager is sold in Citifield at five locations. Flagship Wit was also poured in the Taste of New York bar in Barclay's Center for the beginning of the Brooklyn Nets season.

5. BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT JUST BREWING YOUR FATHER'S LAGER

Flagship Brewery has teamed up with restaurants all over New York City to create special brews for restaurant menus and clientele. Flagship created "Oyster Fest" last summer, a modern take on a traditional Oyster Stout, for their friends at Ulysses on Stone Street for their annual oyster festival. Artichoke NYC teamed up with Flagship to create, "FughettaboutWit,"a take on a wheat ale infused with ginger. And, Flagship created "Wits Up Brah," a wheat ale infused with grapefruit, for Ho'Brah, a taco joint.

6. BECAUSE THEY'RE SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE

Flagship recently signed on with Craft Beer Guild of New York to distribute their beer to Westchester, Rockland and the entire upstate New York market. Starting June 6, Flagship beer will be entering the New Jersey market.

7. BECAUSE IT'S ALSO FOR LOCALS

The brewery estimates that it's donated about $22,000 worth of time, goods and services to an local charities on Staten Island, whether it's through their "Made in Staten Island" marketplace or sponsoring island culturals like the Staten Island Museum and Staten Island Arts' LUMEN festival on June 25. Perhaps one of the most visual examples of this was when they enlisted the help of the Staten Island MakerSpace to make tap handles for a special brew:

How it's made: Tap handles for Flagship's new brewIt's hard to look away when Scott Van Campen of the Staten Island MakerSpace carves wood like butter on his lathe. Here's how he made the 30 tap handles for Flagship Brewing Co.'s special double IPA. (Video by Lauren Steussy with some pictures and video provided by Van Campen)

8. BECAUSE IT'S WHERE WE GO TO CELEBRATE

The brewery is often the go-to for social gatherings and special events.They've been the home base for events like the TOUR DE STATEN bike gathering in the beginning of April, Fleet Week Festival on Memorial Day Weekend, book signings for local authors, pop-up food markets of local restaurants, and the first-ever Flagship Brewery live cooking show featuring Beso, Bayou and Blue inspired dishes with Flagship Beer, made by Staten Island super-chef Julian Guxholli.